..Because the inherited variant in 11q23 has been associated with risk of lower grade glioma and not with glioblastomas, we hypothesized that this variant increases susceptibility to IDH-mutated gliomas, but not to IDH-wild-type gliomas...

Kyle M Walsh1 Division of Neuroepidemiology, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 2 Program in Cancer Genetics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USANat Genet 46:731-5. 2014

..No other risk loci for glioma were associated with LTL. The identification of risk alleles for glioma near TERC and TERT that also associate with telomere length implicates telomerase in gliomagenesis. ..

Cigarette smoking associated with lung adenocarcinoma in situ in a large case-control study (SFBALCS)